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. >> bill: they say we're doing this in the legacy of ronald reagan. bull you know what. ronald reagan raised taxes five times. >> reagan would have no place in the current republican party given some of the things they did. grover norquist holds him up as an icon. grover is in a completely different place than he is on taxes. >> bill: why don't the media expose these people as the liars and hypocrites that they are? >> because they're fair and balanced. >> bill: so are we going over the fiscal cliff? >> i think we are. i think we are. for a couple of reasons. one, there's not a whole lot of time. it is six weeks from tomorrow to the start -- >> bill: they don't have any backbone. >> that's number two. number three 80 lame ducks who may not show up to vote. plus you've got this stale -- continuing stalemate on tax and spending policies and then on top of everything else, it is not really a fiscal cliff. it is a fiscal slope. it stays in place. they called it a cliff but the damage to the economy the real damage only happens if you expose it. >> bill: stan collender, check
. >> bill: they say we're doing this in the legacy of ronald reagan. bull you know what. ronald reagan raised taxes five times. >> reagan would have no place in the current republican party given some of the things they did. grover norquist holds him up as an icon. grover is in a completely different place than he is on taxes. >> bill: why don't the media expose these people as the liars and hypocrites that they are? >> because they're fair and balanced. >> bill:...
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bush nor ronald reagan could get through an election in the republican party. [ technical difficulties ] >> we finished by smashing his guitar on the stage walked off, and the next morning his band announced he was in rehab. the mars rover is still chugging along. it is stopping along the way when it's cameras find something to look at. it found a pyramid shaped rock over the weekend. they pulled out its robotic arm to look closely. >> bill: i ran into a neighborhood of ours yesterday, who is a nasa scientist. i said did you ever get to that mountain? and he said no it takes a long time but we found this great rock yesterday. [ laughter ] >> i love it. white house report tells us that the vice president stopped in at a cafe. ordered food, and offered to buy food for the press corps following him, but they declined. >> bill: isn't that where he said this tastes like a half smoke. he knows his sausage from chicago. 15 minutes after the hour yes, indeed it was a big news on friday. when politicians want to get bad news out they do it on a friday afternoon, it's called in the trade -- i'm
bush nor ronald reagan could get through an election in the republican party. [ technical difficulties ] >> we finished by smashing his guitar on the stage walked off, and the next morning his band announced he was in rehab. the mars rover is still chugging along. it is stopping along the way when it's cameras find something to look at. it found a pyramid shaped rock over the weekend. they pulled out its robotic arm to look closely. >> bill: i ran into a neighborhood of ours...
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in 1980 when jimmy carter was running for re-election and ronald reagan running against him. are you better off than you were four years ago. the answer then was clearly no. it was a good question to ask then. i'm not sure republicans ought to be asking it today because i think it is a different answer today. democrats finally, on this issue and love your take on that. 1-866-55-press. let's get into it. democrats got off to a little rocky start on sunday. bob schieffer welcomed governor martin o'malley whom i think is great by the way. clearly will be a candidate for president in 2016. great leader. but he wasn't thinking as fast as he usually does when bob schieffer asked him this question on sunday and he stumbled a little bit. >> can you honestly say that people are better off today than they were four years ago? >> no. but that's not the question of this election. the question, without a doubt we are not as well off as we were before george bush brought us the bush job losses, the bush recession, the bush deficits, the series of desert wars. >> bill: he got around to it b
in 1980 when jimmy carter was running for re-election and ronald reagan running against him. are you better off than you were four years ago. the answer then was clearly no. it was a good question to ask then. i'm not sure republicans ought to be asking it today because i think it is a different answer today. democrats finally, on this issue and love your take on that. 1-866-55-press. let's get into it. democrats got off to a little rocky start on sunday. bob schieffer welcomed governor martin...
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ronald reagan said he was against term limits when he left office, because he felt in america people should be allowed to pick the leaders they want. >> caller: i believe they should have the term limits because really -- and i'm speaking to you in my point i cannot speak for hispanics, but the majority of black people are looking at this, and never since the gop is going through -- would we help them. >> john: it's true. and this is what a lot of moderate republicans keep screaming about, that they are marginalizing themselves by doing this. and making their party smaller ever year. thank you for your call. >> caller: thank you. >> john: let's play a clip. >> i find someone even as high-ranking, frankly as former president bill clinton to go and be the negotiator. we need a person of enormous prestige and influence so have these parties sit down together. we're crumbling all over the middle east. >> john: that was john mccain talking about how much work is needed to regain credibility. >> boy. that will hurt your head if you think about that too long. >> john: somebody should tell h
ronald reagan said he was against term limits when he left office, because he felt in america people should be allowed to pick the leaders they want. >> caller: i believe they should have the term limits because really -- and i'm speaking to you in my point i cannot speak for hispanics, but the majority of black people are looking at this, and never since the gop is going through -- would we help them. >> john: it's true. and this is what a lot of moderate republicans keep screaming...
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exactly what ronald reagan did! >> whoa, whoa, careful, bill! how dare you invoke the name the holy one! >> bill: that's exactly -- i think the president is right on. how about you. 1-866-55-press. let's talk about it. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." live on your radio and current tv. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> announcer: heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the "bill press show." >> bill: 24 minutes after the hour. congresswoman karen bass joining us in studio in the next segment. we're talking about president obama taking his show on the road to get the support of the american people for a tax cut -- you wouldn't think you would have to go out and put pressure on congress to give 98% of americans a tax cut. but it shows you how out of touch with the american people, the republican leadership in congress particularly are. peter, what have we got going on? >> online, we're not only tweeting at bp show. we're in the chat room. current.com/billpress. barbara in d.c. in the chat room says republicans used to put country fi
exactly what ronald reagan did! >> whoa, whoa, careful, bill! how dare you invoke the name the holy one! >> bill: that's exactly -- i think the president is right on. how about you. 1-866-55-press. let's talk about it. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." live on your radio and current tv. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> announcer: heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the "bill press show." >> bill: 24 minutes after the hour....
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ronald reagan. now, here is the clip that think progress discovered from 1985, president reagan at the whitehouse: >> just a moment ago, a few moments ago, i told some people inside the building here of a letter that i just received day before yesterday. it's a letter from a man out here in the country, an executive who is earning in six figures, well above $100,000 a year. he wrote me in support of the tax plan because he said illegally able to take advantage of the prevent tax code. nothing dishonest. doing what the law prescribes and wind up paying a smaller salary than my secretary gets -- i mean paying a small -- sorry. paying a smaller tax than my secretary pays. and he wrote me the letter to tell me he would like to come to washington and testify before congress as to how that's possible for him to do and why it is wrong. >> charlie, it sounds to me like he was the first patriotic millionaire? >> he is a wild-eyed radical who president obama put it, could not have a chance at the republican p
ronald reagan. now, here is the clip that think progress discovered from 1985, president reagan at the whitehouse: >> just a moment ago, a few moments ago, i told some people inside the building here of a letter that i just received day before yesterday. it's a letter from a man out here in the country, an executive who is earning in six figures, well above $100,000 a year. he wrote me in support of the tax plan because he said illegally able to take advantage of the prevent tax code....
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reagan puts how many marines at risk and pulls them out like the coward he is. >> bill: we forgot about that. we shouldn't forget about that in lebanon. >> caller: as far as newt complaining about anybody would make this decision, somebody would have to be able to have the report called in first. he didn't want to pay for it. if nobody's going to call it in, how are you going to make the decision? >> bill: good point. good point. everything they say there is no logic to it, of course, randy. appreciate the call. again i think it is just their -- either frustration with or their hate for barack obama that make them unable to give him credit for anything. john out in lakewood, new york. hey, john. >> caller: good morning, bill. >> bill: yes sir. >> caller: i was watching the program last night on another network about the situation room last night. one thing was with very, very surprising to me. that the president of the united states asked the vice president when he was trying to make the decision go or no go and believe it or not, through his restation between the vice president and the
reagan puts how many marines at risk and pulls them out like the coward he is. >> bill: we forgot about that. we shouldn't forget about that in lebanon. >> caller: as far as newt complaining about anybody would make this decision, somebody would have to be able to have the report called in first. he didn't want to pay for it. if nobody's going to call it in, how are you going to make the decision? >> bill: good point. good point. everything they say there is no logic to it, of...
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george herbert walker said ronald reagan's economics whyere voodoo he did not say he would be the worst possible republican to challenge jimmy carter. reagan put him on the ticket. it was fine. these fall into the category of irretrieve irretrievable. >> my final question, a tricky one. are you ready for this 1234. >> i am ready. >> would you pay $50 to have your photo taken with newt gingrich? >> no. >> the fact that he's charging people $50 kind of said something about his campaign? doesn't it. >> he said it would be a brand-new kind of campaign. i guess he meant it. >> broke. ridiculous. >> if i could get $50 to have someone stand next to me, you know, i give away pictures for free. >> don't hold your breath. >> exactly. >>> major garrett, "national journal." your twitter handle? >> major@nj it used to be major at wh. i could probably put it back now that i am back there but i will keep it at major@mj. >> wrap things up with a parting shot. ♪ >> this is the bill press show. with all the hundreds i've saved on car insurance this year this meter's on me. there's a catch? there's no c
george herbert walker said ronald reagan's economics whyere voodoo he did not say he would be the worst possible republican to challenge jimmy carter. reagan put him on the ticket. it was fine. these fall into the category of irretrieve irretrievable. >> my final question, a tricky one. are you ready for this 1234. >> i am ready. >> would you pay $50 to have your photo taken with newt gingrich? >> no. >> the fact that he's charging people $50 kind of said something...
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reagan, sleepy, sleepy ♪ ♪ so, when i turn the washington mall into a private putting green, you'll vote republican ♪ ♪ and when i turn the social security over to a bunch of drunken day traders you'll vote republican ♪ ♪ when i drag the nation through eight years of carnage and incompetence and leave the place a bigger mess than lindsay lohan's trailer ♪ ♪ then blame the democrats for cleaning up too slow ♪ ♪ you will awake confused, refreshed, somewhat paranoid and you'll remember nothing ♪ ♪ and vote republican ♪ ♪ you're getting sleepy ♪ ♪ republican ♪ ♪ and somewhat sheepy ♪ ♪ republican ♪ ♪ lula buysend -- ♪ lula buy ♪ >> that's the message. you got it down. that's exactly the message. you could put quotes around every line. people are saying it must be easy to do satire now because -- >> bill: because there's so much material. >> but with the g.o.p.s saying the things they're saying because it is harder. there's competition. it must be satire. they're taking an absurd point of view and extrapolating on that to the nth degree. >> bil
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ronald reagan wouldn't fit in with them. chris christie of course will be a part of that camp. >> immigration is going to be a real good test case. you'll see this divide between that brand of moderate republicans saying that immigration is an economic issue. that we need to bring in people with the skills that america needs to power the economy and on the other side, folks like steve king and michele bachmann who use those emotional appeals of they'll take your jobs, they're from another country and so on and so forth. how that plays out will be key to what the party becomes. >> john: you can't win the white house with less than 40% of the latino vote. the pragmatic republican response would be let's find a pathway to citizen. you have sean hannity saying this now. >> what a conversion. >> john: everyone in politics -- >> how convenient. >> john: in fairness, both sides historically have cared more about electability than ideology. >> true. but this is a party who when bush did it, when democrats tried to bring forward a dr
ronald reagan wouldn't fit in with them. chris christie of course will be a part of that camp. >> immigration is going to be a real good test case. you'll see this divide between that brand of moderate republicans saying that immigration is an economic issue. that we need to bring in people with the skills that america needs to power the economy and on the other side, folks like steve king and michele bachmann who use those emotional appeals of they'll take your jobs, they're from another...
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. >> ronald reagan president reagan used to have a great line ballpark it was -- he had a diaper routine that had to do with baseball diamonds, you know first base and then third base. >> yeah. >> it was great. i should look that up. i remember hearing him tell that story once, that joke once. >> it was not a cloth diaper. >> those are too easy, the snap-on diapers. >> yeah. all right. hey, we havegot so much. by the way, they are finally admitting it. it took them four years. they are finally, admitting it, that sarah palin was a colossal dumb-assmist. i love it. it took dick cheney who is nothing right now. he is sake whatever the hell he wants darth vader. >> talking with jonathan carl, and he said, let's just stop kidding ourselves. >> she is an attractive candidate, but based on on her background she had only been a governor for two years. i don't think she passed that test of being ready to take over. and i think that was a mistake. >> i think that was a mistake, he said. yeah. it was, and it took years to tell them. it might have turned out differently without her. >> dave zirin w
. >> ronald reagan president reagan used to have a great line ballpark it was -- he had a diaper routine that had to do with baseball diamonds, you know first base and then third base. >> yeah. >> it was great. i should look that up. i remember hearing him tell that story once, that joke once. >> it was not a cloth diaper. >> those are too easy, the snap-on diapers. >> yeah. all right. hey, we havegot so much. by the way, they are finally admitting it. it...
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ronald reagan. that's right the reagan administration asserted that justice department deliberation like these should not be subject to congressional scrutiny and review. secondly actually i think thirdly, even republicans think that daryl isom is going too far. eric can'ter the republican majority leader said maybe this isn't such a good idea and tried to put the kibosh on things. >> the other thing that sort of gets me and this is where it gets pretty weird. daryl isa and other republicans have suggested that this whole abrasion of allowing guns to go to mexico is part of some conspiracy theory. in other words he has said that the obama administration "made a crisis with this gun running when they continued the bush era gun running operations because they wanted to use this crisis to somehow take away or limit people's second amendment rights." hmm. allowing goes mexico would somehow limit second amendment rights. the theory in the right wing is that the there's a former militia man who supports v
ronald reagan. that's right the reagan administration asserted that justice department deliberation like these should not be subject to congressional scrutiny and review. secondly actually i think thirdly, even republicans think that daryl isom is going too far. eric can'ter the republican majority leader said maybe this isn't such a good idea and tried to put the kibosh on things. >> the other thing that sort of gets me and this is where it gets pretty weird. daryl isa and other...
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ronald reagan pointed that out. ed from new jersey look on boehner's home page, the actual heading reads, quote response to president obama's unserious fiscal cliff proposal. is unserious a word? in john boehner's universe, i guess. >> as much of a word as flabbergasted is. >> bill: robert calls him the weeper of the house. kitty jon says says i started my campaign against boehner last week saying what you are discussing this morning. i don't plan to let up on it although i believe it falls on deaf ears. peter, how do people john campaign? >> peter: on twitter@speaker boehner. speaker.gov/contact, 202-225-0600, how to get in touch with speaker boehner >> bill: the message is simply at that time cut for 98% of the americans, lead or get out of the way. >> "the bill press show." >> yesterday we saw both sides accusing each other of not getting anything done. speaker john boehner said on fox news sunday, right now we are nor, period. here is let's take a look at treasury secretary timothy geithner on abc's "this week".
ronald reagan pointed that out. ed from new jersey look on boehner's home page, the actual heading reads, quote response to president obama's unserious fiscal cliff proposal. is unserious a word? in john boehner's universe, i guess. >> as much of a word as flabbergasted is. >> bill: robert calls him the weeper of the house. kitty jon says says i started my campaign against boehner last week saying what you are discussing this morning. i don't plan to let up on it although i believe...
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by some very serious people, richard burt ronald reagan's former strategic negotiator. chuck hagel is also on that panel. former republican senator from nebraska. they're saying look, we now have almost 5,000 nuclear weapons for what? what would we use five for? let's have a realistic arsenal that can serve our deterrent needs but at a reasonable cost. by cutting it down to 900 weapons, half of which would be deployed. deploy about 450 keep the rest in reserve, you could save right away about $100 billion over the next ten years. it is effective, it is safe. it makes sense. i hope the president listens to him. we expect the president to be making a decision on cutting the nuclear force sometime in the next few weeks. my guess is sometime in june he's going to announce his decision based on a study that's been on-going for the last year. we'll see if he listens to this panel. >> bill: is there any deadline for him? >> he wants to start a new round of negotiations with the russians. you want them to reduce theirs. there's cost involved. it costs us about $54 billion a yea
by some very serious people, richard burt ronald reagan's former strategic negotiator. chuck hagel is also on that panel. former republican senator from nebraska. they're saying look, we now have almost 5,000 nuclear weapons for what? what would we use five for? let's have a realistic arsenal that can serve our deterrent needs but at a reasonable cost. by cutting it down to 900 weapons, half of which would be deployed. deploy about 450 keep the rest in reserve, you could save right away about...
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bush senior was for women's reproductive freedoms until the very day ronald reagan asked him to be his running mate and then flipped over. our pro-lifers who vote republican complete suckers or am i making too much of this? >> you know, it is interesting this evangelical wing that's taken over. i really think it is a reaction to obama care and a reaction to obama. suddenly these people are coming out of the woodwork and they're angry and upset because obama care is such a long, complicated document. they think that their healthcare costs are going to go up and they think they're forced to do this and that and it is freaking them out about social issues that otherwise wouldn't necessarily have been at the forefront of the national conversation. but if you think about it, obviously what you're saying is if you want smaller government, if you want the government out of your life, why would you support the government writing laws that legislate your reproductive system? it doesn't make sense for a conservative. i don't understand it at all. >> john: it makes sense if you believe -- if your
bush senior was for women's reproductive freedoms until the very day ronald reagan asked him to be his running mate and then flipped over. our pro-lifers who vote republican complete suckers or am i making too much of this? >> you know, it is interesting this evangelical wing that's taken over. i really think it is a reaction to obama care and a reaction to obama. suddenly these people are coming out of the woodwork and they're angry and upset because obama care is such a long,...
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reagan. reagan couldn't win a republican primary. i think he's absolutely right moses, too bad. moses is calling from st. ann, illinois. hey, moses, good morning. >> caller: good morning. my question, i keep thinking of the republicans today as -- are they really -- i've been thinking of them dixie-crates. are they something worse than a dixie-crat and if they aren't, what are they? you keep calling them the tea party. to me, that's just a made-up name. they're still republican but they're so extreme, i just can't are. >> bill: well, first of all, total complete opposition to that. >> it is going to take some time to rebuild, but, you know, the people are strong here so -- you know >> bill: i'm glad the mayor canceled the marathon too. >> i don't know if you saw the transcript in the daily news thatted what his comments about the president not coming to new york city. basically saying that today and their goal is to shut government down. they don't want government to work. so they don't want
reagan. reagan couldn't win a republican primary. i think he's absolutely right moses, too bad. moses is calling from st. ann, illinois. hey, moses, good morning. >> caller: good morning. my question, i keep thinking of the republicans today as -- are they really -- i've been thinking of them dixie-crates. are they something worse than a dixie-crat and if they aren't, what are they? you keep calling them the tea party. to me, that's just a made-up name. they're still republican but...
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. >> he wrapped himself in a mantle of ronald reagan. meanwhile, mitt romney got a couple of big endorsements yesterday. first, he got the endorsement of marco rubio from florida. man, i have to tell you, this guy is running so heart for vice president it's obscene. you know you don'trun run for vice president. you just sort of, you have to be kind of cute. right? you know you don't throw yourself in front of them. you just sort of, you know do a good job and let people let others talk about you. rubio is just hungry for the job. >> and also, wasn't the florida primary several weeks ago now? i mean if he really wanted to show his convictions. >> then? yeah. no. he ishas just endorsed mit rom ney yesterday. he has a new book coming out. i mean come on okay. and the bigger endorsement maybe was from president bush president bush. former -- they are both former but pappy bush, the good one of the bush presidents, relatively speed speeding number 41 endorsing mitt romney yesterday. >> i do think it's time for the party to get behind governor
. >> he wrapped himself in a mantle of ronald reagan. meanwhile, mitt romney got a couple of big endorsements yesterday. first, he got the endorsement of marco rubio from florida. man, i have to tell you, this guy is running so heart for vice president it's obscene. you know you don'trun run for vice president. you just sort of, you have to be kind of cute. right? you know you don't throw yourself in front of them. you just sort of, you know do a good job and let people let others talk...